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Classroom Resources | Grades 5 – 12 | Calendar Activity |&nbsp November 28America celebrates Thanksgiving Day today.
After reading the book Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving, students read the letter Hale sent to Lincoln and brainstorm a list of ways to make their community better.

Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard LessonAnalyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare
Popular culture provides an introduction to Shakespeare's poetic devices in this lesson, which asks students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Classroom Resources | Grades 8 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard LessonAnalyzing and Podcasting About Images of Oscar Wilde
Students analyze images of Oscar Wilde used to publicize his 1882 American lecture tour. They then compare a caricature to another researched image, sharing this analysis in a podcast.

Professional Development | Grades 8 – 12 | Professional Library | JournalAnalyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar Instruction
Kenneth Lindblom and Patricia A. Dunn teach language awareness and use through published complaints about the teaching of grammar. Students are able to recognize issues of race and class that determine acceptable usage and learn the importance of audience in their own language use.

Classroom Resources | Grades 4 – 8 | Lesson Plan | UnitAnalyzing How Narrative Structure Generates Empathy in Wonder
This lesson builds students' understanding of empathy by defining key terms and comparing responses to characters when they are introduced by someone else, and then when they narrate the story themselves.

Classroom Resources | Grades 5 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard LessonAnimate that Haiku!
Following the traditional form of the haiku, students publish their own haikus using Animoto, an online web tool to produce slideshows that blend text and music.

Classroom Resources | Grades 5 – 12 | Calendar Activity |&nbsp June 12Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Students learn about eyewitness reports through a lesson that is grade-level appropriate. Then, groups use primary source documents and research an event using eyewitness accounts.